Science Illustrated

If you drink a lot of coffee during the day, Finnish researchers might have good news.

After analysing 25,000+ tissue samples, researchers conclude that there are two crucial stages in life when you age faster than other times.

Following a lab experiment, researchers are in no doubt: Earth’s most isolated continent is concealing something truly unique on the other side of its thick ice sheet.

It was pitch dark, the pressure was immense, and there were 3+ km of water above them. Yet a group of researchers witnessed something that will be hard to forget.

You may need to change your view of growing old - according to a new study in which researchers from Texas, etc., analysed data from 167,000 people.

For 100 years, researchers have tried to prove it. Now they may finally have succeeded.

Every night, your sheets collect sweat, skin cells, dust mites, and bacteria, but how often should you wash them? A leading microbiologist provides a very specific answer – revealing a detail concerning the washing machine that you must not ignore.

It weighs 10 t and is several m high – no one knows why it was placed here thousands of years ago.

In a new study, researchers from the University of California found a possible link between particular behaviour in children and adolescents and symptoms of ADHD – a link that was already suspected by psychologist and ADHD researcher Aida Bikic, who has very simple, fixed rules for her own kids.

Post-doctoral researcher in neuroepidemiology Abigail Dove has calculated how much poor sleep adds to your brain’s biological age. And she offers paradoxical advice, which she uses to sleep better herself.

A crucial clue in one of the greatest scientific mysteries of all may have been found in ancient rock.

Structures weighing 1,200 t pulverised in the name of science. In recent years, researchers have used a range of extreme devices to simulate natural disasters, so we can prepare for the violent forces of nature. And video shows just how extreme the experiments are.

Three years ago, something made Biomedical Engineering Professor Dean Ho re-evaluate his life and become the subject of a rather unusual research project. He shares a special tip on how to change one's habits.

Particularly one detail concerning the way the 1,400-year-old find was positioned caught archaeologists’ attention.

Fossils demonstrate that forms of life that go extinct reappear millions of years later – simply because they are ingenious.

Researchers have come up with a very specific solution that appears to make a marked difference to bone loss in women.

Child psychiatrist Berit Skretting Solberg followed 38,000 families over a period of 10 years. She now highlights a specific factor that could reduce your child’s risk of developing ADHD symptoms.